(Department of Philosophy
[Chair of Medieval Philosophy] - State University of Milano - Italy)

CONTENTS

FIRST PART: FINDING A
PARADIGM.

CHAPTER ONE - The
History (a short survery of the historical development of Islamic Philosophy
from the Mu'tazilites to Ibn Khaldun).

CHAPTER TWO - What
is Islamic philosophy? (a critical analysis of the meaning of philosophy in
the Arab and Islamic world during the so called Middle Ages).

CHAPTER THREE -
The ways of philosophy (a critical analysis of the main overall keys of
interpretation of Islamic philosophy).

SECOND PART: THE MOST
IMPORTANT ISSUES IN ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY.

CHAPTER ONE -
The Unicity of God (a survey of the Islamic theories of tawhid from the
Mu'tazilites' negative theology to the neoplatonic God of al-Farabi and Ibn
Sina to al- Ghazali's Light of the Lights).

CHAPTER TWO -
The structure of universe (the cosmic hierarchical structure in Islamic
philosophy).

CHAPTER THREE -
The human intellect (theories of Intellect from al-Kindi to Ibn Rushd with
special emphasis on the conjunction).

CHAPTER FOUR - Freedom
and necessity in God's action (a theoretical insight in the debate between
al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd in Tahafut al-falasifa and Tahafut al-tahafut).

CHAPTER FIVE -
Ethics and politics (with emphasis on God's justice and on the ideal and
perfect state).